Running anything as root that does not need to be is a bad habit to get into, even for a "quick and dirty" program like this. Especially anything that you have set up to be available from now until you go back in and remove it (even across reboots). Change:

secshsms    stream    tcp    nowait    root    /usr/local/bin/sinet.pl
+ secshsms

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to

secshsms    stream    tcp    nowait    nobody  /usr/local/bin/sinet.pl
+ secshsms

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This change runs your program as the almost completely unprivileged user "nobody". (man inetd.conf)

The intelligent reader will judge for himself. Without examining the facts fully and fairly, there is no way of knowing whether vox populi is really vox dei, or merely vox asinorum. — Cyrus H. Gordon

In reply to Re: RFC: A Simple Socket Server Using 'inetd' by idsfa
in thread RFC: A Simple Socket Server Using 'inetd' by samizdat

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